What Is Cultivated Silk & Sericulture

Cultivated Silk is an alternate name of Mulberry Silk, refer to silks that are produced by silkworms eating mulberry leaves.

Sericulture, or silk farming, is the rearing of silkworms for the production of silk. Although there are several commercial species of silkworms, Bombyx mori (the caterpillar of the domesticated silk moth) is the most widely used and intensively studied silkworm.